During Mao Zedong's leadership of Communist China, the country could be described as a country of "actually-existing socialism".

TRUEFALSE

Mao was a revisionist.

TRUEFALSE

During Josef Stalin's leadership of the Soviet Union, the country could be described as a country of "actually-existing socialism".

TRUEFALSE

Stalin was a tyrannical monster, who twisted Marxist principles, and murdered millions of innocent people.

TRUEFALSE

The Soviet Union was state-capitalist during Stalin's leadership.

TRUEFALSE

Democracy in the Soviet Union degenerated following Vladimir Lenin's death, so the country could be best described following his death as a "degenerated worker state".

TRUEFALSE

The Soviet Union was always state-capitalist.

TRUEFALSE

The theory of Protracted People's War is revolutionary. The foco theory of guerrilla warfare does not apply globally, only in cases of extreme despotism.

TRUEFALSE

The theory of the mass line is revolutionary.

TRUEFALSE

Communists in the First World should be placing a higher importance on Second World and Third World revolution.

TRUEFALSE

National liberation is the only way to smash national oppression. A communist party of the whole nation cannot smash national oppression on its own. The Second World and Third World must have their own vanguard parties to combat the imperialist system.

TRUEFALSE

Leninism is a perversion of Marxism.

TRUEFALSE

Revolution can and should occur spontaneously from below, without the aid or authority of a vanguard party.

TRUEFALSE

Capitalism is now a global system, so it is necessary for proletarian internationalism, or international socialism to take precedence over "socialism in one country". Workers must become a global class to demolish capitalism. A national revolution or "revolution in one country" will only lead to ruin. A revolutionary proletarian international cannot be constructed until a majority of countries have overthrown the capitalist system.

TRUEFALSE

Workers' councils and student councils are more democratically "healthy" than centralized boards of democratically-elected, trained experts.

TRUEFALSE

Technocracy, a form of meritocracy, is a socialist idea.

TRUEFALSE

Western Marxism has made very important theoretical contributions to the world communist movement.

TRUEFALSE

The Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States, under Bob Avakian, is the true vanguard party of the American working class.

TRUEFALSE

True socialism has not existed yet.

TRUEFALSE

Josef Stalin's line is the only revolutionary line. Maoism, although it had its day in Communist China, is a flame long extinguished. Marxism–Leninism remains the only revolutionary science. If you disagree with Maoism or Hoxhaism entirely, select "no preference".

TRUEFALSE

Maoism is a perversion of Marxism. Hoxha defended true Marxism. If you disagree with Maoism or Hoxhaism entirely, select "no preference".

TRUEFALSE

Maoism is an advanced stage of Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. Today, the vanguard ideology of the proletariat is a synthesis of Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism: Marxism–Leninism–Maoism. If you disagree with Leninism entirely, select "no preference".

TRUEFALSE

Hoxha was a dogmatist, and his ideas were nationalist and cold. If you disagree with Maoism and Hoxhaism entirely, select "no preference".

TRUEFALSE

Hardt's and Negri's ideas of autonomism and globalization (the theory of "Empire", etc.) are valuable contributions to Marxist thought.

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